- Monday, 3 November 2025
Kathmandu, Nov 3: President Ramchandra Paudel has reached Doha today to participate in the Second World Summit for Social Development to be held there from November 4 to 6.
The President is leading a 12-member Nepali delegation to the Summit at the invitation of Amir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani.
High-ranking officials of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Qatar and Nepali Embassy in Qatar including Nepali Embassy, Ramesh Chandra Poudel, Permanent Representative of Nepal to the United nations, Lok Bahadur Thapa, welcomed President Paudel upon his arrival at Doha-based Hamad International Airport, according to President Paudel’s Secretariat.
President Paudel is scheduled to address the Plenary Meetings and the High-Level Roundtable of the Summit on November 4.
The President is scheduled to hold meetings with the UN Secretary General and the Amir of Qatar, it is said.
On the sidelines of the Summit, the President will also meet some world leaders attending the event. It is said that the Summit would make a shared commitment on cooperation and assistance for social development. The Summit is also expected to hold intensive discussions on development inequalities in the world, demographic imbalances and the impacts of technology on the society.
The First World Summit for Social Development was held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1995. President Paudel is accompanied by his spouse Sabita Paudel, Kiran Kumar Pokhrel, the media expert to the President, the Secretary of the President’s Office, and other senior officials of the Government of Nepal. The President and the delegation will return to Kathmandu on November 6. —
